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Mapping and Characterisation of Key Biotic and Physical Attributes of the Torres Strait Ecosystem (Towed Video)

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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The seabed habitat, marine plant and sessile megabenthos cover of the 50,000 km² area of the Torres Strait Protected Zone and adjacent shelf seabed was observed by a 500 m transect of a Drop-Camera video system at 173 sites, representing a wide range of known physical environments, during one 1-month-long voyage on the James Cook University vessel James Kirby. Continuous underway coding during transects recorded cover of 9 substrata types, 26 biohabitat types, and occurrence of 12 faunal classes. Laboratory post-analysis of the video recorded more detail at ~30 random frames per transect, including: 20 substratum types, 92 biological types -- the dataset comprises ~28,000 site-by-type records. In addition, during most transects, digital still photographs were taken at 5-15 second intervals with strobes, and CTD data were recorded.

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Field Value
Title Mapping and Characterisation of Key Biotic and Physical Attributes of the Torres Strait Ecosystem (Towed Video)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f03d20ef-cab5-47a0-b4dc-64160a29c3a5
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Roland.Pitcher@csiro.au
Reference Period 23/03/2005 - 19/04/2005
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Mapping and Characterisation of Key Biotic and Physical Attributes of the Torres Strait Ecosystem (Towed Video)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/mapping-and-characterisation-of-key-biotic-and-physical-attributes-of-the-torres-strait-ecosyst5